Creator unknown. [A portrait of one of the most extradordinary characters which the history of the fine arts has yet recorded ; a gentleman who, though the perversity of nature seemed to have designed him for a helpless existence, to have deprived him of the physical capacity to labor in any way, has yet acquired skill and reputation in the exercise of one of the most difficult of the fine arts. He was born without arms, and with mis-formed legs, but with head and trunk fully developed. Du Cornet in early life began to use his feet where others use the hands. Gradually acquiring dexterity in so doing, he advanced from one thing to another, until drawing and painting became his chose art.